Klaus Katzur
Klaus Katzur (born August 26, 1943 in Potsdam ; † September 4, 2016 in Riesa ) was a swimming athlete from the GDR who won an Olympic silver medal with the individual relay relay in 1972.
Life
Katzur started swimming at the age of 14, but it wasn't until 1963 that he started serious competitive sports . Klaus Katzur started for ASK Vorwärts Potsdam , for which Egon Henninger , the strongest breaststroke swimmer in the GDR at the time, was active. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, Katzur competed on the 200-meter chest course, but was eliminated in the intermediate run. In 1965 Katzur was able to win his first individual title at GDR championships when he beat Henninger on the longer chest distance. At the same championship he also won the 400-meter medley course.
In 1966, Katzur won his first international medal when he received the bronze medal at the European Championships in Utrecht on the long medley course behind his Rostock teammate Frank Wiegand and Andrei Dunajew from the Soviet Union . At the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968 , Katzur took on both chest stretches, but did not reach the final again. Two years later at the European Championships in Barcelona in 1970 , Katzur won the 200-meter chest competition ahead of Nikolai Pankin and Walter Kusch . He also appeared for the first time instead of Henninger in the GDR layer relay. Together with Roland Matthes , Udo Poser and Lutz Unger , he won his second European title.
When he took part in the Olympics for the third time in 1972 in Munich , Katzur was eliminated from the 100 meter chest in the intermediate run. On the long chest stretch he reached the final and finished eighth. With the GDR layer relay made up of Roland Matthes, Klaus Katzur, Hartmut Flöckner and Lutz Unger, Katzur won the Olympic silver medal behind the US relay at the end of his career.
Katzur stayed with the People's Navy until 1987 and rose to become a frigate captain as a youth trainer . Then he moved to Karl-Marx-Stadt , today Chemnitz.
Klaus Katzur was married to the swimmer Petra Thümer for some time .
GDR championship title (without relays)
- 100 meters chest: 1967, 1971, 1972
- 200 meters chest: 1965, 1967, 1969, 1972
- 400 meter medley: 1965
Awards (selection)
- 1972: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
literature
- Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR. Your successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 , pp. 192f.
Web links
- Klaus Katzur in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- European Swimming Championships
- GDR championships in breaststroke
- Klaus Katzur is dead . Saxon Newspaper , September 10, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sebastian Schwenke: Olympic medalist Klaus Katzur has passed away . Swimsport News, September 8, 2016, accessed September 9, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Katzur, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German swimming athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th September 2016 |
| Place of death | Riesa |